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if I wished for a brother I'd get a sister, and that's what I wanted." His other ideas on the subject, due to his own experiences, were real concerned that Janet never had to take any anesthetics nor have any of the other trials that vacillating health necessitated. 

On Sam's arrival, the pain [[?]] of his unearthly things was forgotten in his lovely smile and understanding eyes.  A nonchalance was achieved for the visit and held only long enough so as not to overtax the transcendent powers of those two very ill people. 

On the ninth day of Janet's life Sam collapsed entirely, a blood clot going to the brain and he was hurried back to Dayton where all medical aid and machinery were at hand.  Hattie knew that this had happened before two kind friends told her as gently as possible.  Thee next day Hattie returned home.  Hattie and Thelma and little Buck and Mr. Brukner, Sr. constituted the household.  For ten longs days Sam fought to live.  His one plea being that Hattie not travel those twenty miles and thereby injure her health.  When Janet was a little over two weeks old Sam was brought home.  His brain would clear and cloud, all sense of time and relation of events lived was gone.  During one clear spell he saw Janet for about five minutes, realising she was beautiful and healthy, feeling sure that the baby would survive but awfully concerned over the baby's mother. For a few more weeks Sam was tortured into continued breathing (by a practice which the law could prohibit for humanity's sake,) that of maintaining a section of the heart by the use of oxygen.  One evening Same asked to see Hattie who had tried to create an appearance like the girl Sam had married.  As requested, she stood under the light from the center chandelier while Sam took his farewell with the admonitions to Hattie to never grow sour or cynical; to hang on to her religion; to remain sweet and she would be safe from all of the evils in the world. On the morning of October 1st, 1926, Sam joined Buck as he had been saying he was going to "when Buck laid down the damn newspaper he was reading."

Sam was buried in Troy, O. according to the others wishes tho he and Hattie believed in cremation. 

As always, the world and industry go ceaselessly on to the surprise of people mortally stricken.  Sam died intestate. Sam and Clayt